Evolution

To this day Charles Darwins evolutionary theory of the survival of the fittest has been visualized with the universal model of a tree of life. But ...

In Strange New Worlds, renowned astronomer Ray Jayawardhana brings news from the front lines of the epic quest to find planets--and alien life--bey...

Why information is the unifying principle that allows us to understand the evolution of complexity in natureMore than 150 years after Darwins revol...

This book discusses the natural classification and biosystematics of Triticeae and presents the most significant findings of comprehensive studies ...

Darwin's theory of evolution was for more than a century dogged by a major problem: the evidence proving the connections between the main groups of...

This book presents key concepts for students to understand chemical resistance in agriculture and apply that knowledge to achieving global food sec...

An ecologist explores how life itself shapes Earth using the elemental constituents we all shareIt is rare for life to change Earth, yet three orga...

When published in 1980, Benjamin B. Beck's Animal Tool Behavior was the first volume to catalog and analyze the complete literature on tool use an...

A new human species will soon come to co-exist with us. This new species, 'Homo nouveau,' will be created using artificial intelligence and genetic...

Neither cellular/molecular nor ecosystem processes can be fully understood without a detailed understanding of the biology of the whole organism. D...

Since the late 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a 'cognitive revolution' (C.50,000 years ago) led to the advent of our spec...

Our experience of the world is driven by processes common to all animals: growth, survival, reproduction and death. Evolution and Human Behaviour e...

This research level text documents the latest advances in odonate biology and relates these to a broader ecological and evolutionary research agend...

It's time for a story of human evolution that goes beyond describing ape-men and talks about what women and children were doing. In a few decades,...

Seventy years ago, Erwin Schrödinger posed a profound question: 'What is life, and how did it emerge from non-life?' This problem has puzzled biolo...

What if experiencing a good life involves more than just pleasure?Revealing the surprising roots of lasting happiness, pre-eminent psychologist Pa...

After his famous visit to the Galapagos Islands, Darwin speculated that one might fancy that, from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago...

'An essential primer on humanitys ongoing quest to understand the secrets of life . . . Excellent . . . Ball is a terrific writer.' Adam Rutherfor...

This two-volume work focuses on the mathematical aspects of Darwinian evolution starting from the basic model of stochastic evolution of a single i...

Neither cellular/molecular nor ecosystem processes can be fully understood without a detailed understanding of the biology of the whole organism. D...